openai/image-gpt

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OpenAI's official code and pre-trained models for iGPT (image GPT), a GPT-2-style transformer adapted to generate and classify images as pixel sequences. The repository is archived and provided as-is with no further updates.

Use cases

• generate images with a pretrained transformer model
• experiment with autoregressive image modeling
• pretrain transformers on pixels for representation learning
• evaluate iGPT on imagenet and cifar10
• sample from iGPT-S/M/L checkpoints
• study how GPT-2 architecture applies to images

When to choose

• you need the exact iGPT models from the Generative Pretraining from Pixels paper
• you want a research starting point for autoregressive pixel-based image generation
• you can work with TensorFlow 1.x on Ubuntu with multi-GPU setups

When to avoid

• you need maintained code or modern framework support
• you want production image generation rather than research experimentation
• you cannot use TensorFlow 1.13 or legacy CUDA environments

Facets

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machine-learning deep-learning llm-training image-processing deep-learning machine-learning computer-vision artificial-intelligence python gpt transformers image-generation tensorflow pretrained-models research openai archived linux gpu

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